Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6 (2003)
after the military. It's huge in America, it's big business
and it's growing rapidly. What's that about? Land of the free?
I think actually that a lot of the paranoia that we see
prevalent now about Muslims and terrorists it's rooted in this
fear of communism that comes from the second half of the 20th
century. And I think to understand the way Americans are now
behaving you need to understand that. All these structures
were set up around this fear of communism. And the way Rosa is
treated is a real model.
We had the impression that in all of the plays motherhood
plays an important role. And that Rosa decides for a low-
profile life as a mother of five children and Mata Hari, on
the other hand, leaves her children to pursue her career as
well as her sexual interests. Would you agree that Rosa, Mata
Hari, and Helga, who sends her daughter away to have a chance
to live, are complementary figures concerning their decisions
as mothers?
Motherhood is a fascinating thing for women. All women have to
deal with it if they're mothers or not, because they're all
daughters. Anyway, so they have mothers, even if they don't
know them, they have to deal with the issue of motherhood. And
whether or not a woman becomes mother, is a huge feature of
her identity. She chooses not to or is unable to become a
mother or does become a mother. Rosa, Helga and Mata Hari are
all different sides of what being a mother is. Yes. That's
interesting, they all link in. I'm very interested in this
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